What has restricting protests to Freedom Park meant for Bengaluru and its people?
The Hindu“One of my favourite Bengaluru memories is gathering at Town Hall and singing,” says Vinay Sreenivasa, breaking into a resistance song. Even in Freedom Park, protests can only take place in a designated area “a parking lot where you are supposed to gather and raise slogans…where no one can see you,” says the lawyer and activist at a recent panel discussion titled Art as Activism: Creative Avenues for Voicing Dissent. “This restriction has not just made it difficult to protest anywhere, it has also made overall dissent itself very difficult.” The importance of dissent The event, which was held at the Bangalore International Centre, was centred around two broad topics: the ramifications of the ruling of the Karnataka High Court that limits public protests in Bengaluru to Freedom Park and how art can serve as a medium for dissent and drive social change. “Many of us have at least one FIR, due to the Freedom Park rule, which is what we have to fight against,” he says, referring to this rule as draconian.
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